osf1 man page for probenis

probenis(8)						      System Manager's Manual						       probenis(8)

NAME
       probenis - Probes for existence of NIS server

SYNOPSIS
       /usr/sbin/probenis [-t timeout] domain

DESCRIPTION
       The  probenis  command  probes  the  network  to determine whether or not NIS is available.  Although part of the JOIN package, it does not
       explicitly depend on the configuration database and can be used standalone.  It is chiefly of use on nomadic machines to prevent the  invo-
       cation of ypbind on a network where NIS is unavailable.

       It  uses  broadcast  RPC to make a call to YPPROC_DOMAIN_NONACK, and then waits for a reply to be received or a timeout.  Unless changed on
       the command line, the default timeout for RPC is used (currently 25 seconds). The probenis command takes no action other  than  to  set	an
       exit code: zero if NIS appears to be running, nonzero otherwise.

SEE ALSO
       Commands: ypbind(8)

       Information: dhcp(7)

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